Zack wrote>although my wife scoffs and wonders why I don't correspond more with people I actually know in the flesh. She doesn't get it.

I think you get to know people in a totally different way here at Gasland, but it's every bit as real as "in the flesh". In fact, over time, you get to know people better than you might if you saw them every day. Studying the way people are affected by the Rolling Stones is as valid as studying the bumps on their heads or their handwriting. And sometimes people say things in the privacy of their treefort that they might not elsewhere. I know I do!

>Dano asked:How loyal are you to Gasland?

Gasland is my home and has been from the start. It's the first place I check after my email. I read it every day that I am at my computer - whether I post or not depends on whether I have anything to say and the time to say it. I lag behind in reading threads and sometimes post a response to a thread from last week, as a sort of dialogue with the past. I ALWAYS read posts by C10 brothers first. I gravitate to posts by the Old Guard but am trying hard not to become an Old Coot or, worse, a Old Codger.

I post at Rocks Off and check in there just about every day, too. Gasland and Rocks Off are the yin & yang. Very different yet sisters. The Mary Cate and Ashley of Stones MBs. If I HAD to choose only one MB it would be Gasland, but I'm very glad I don't have to choose.

Politically, Gasland has a more liberal feel to it - which makes me feel more at home. That, and the fact that I've been here since Day One, makes me 100% Loyal To Gasland.

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